One day, three Yakima County shootings

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YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. -- Three separate shootings in Yakima County in less than 24 hours.One resulted from a burglary in Zillah. The other two were in Yakima and blamed on gangs.

YPD says it is hard to solve these kinds of cases when no one cooperates.

"When you have a victim that won't cooperate. You may have half a dozen witnesses standing there watching it go down and not talking to us-they didn't see anything. So it makes our job very difficult then to identify, make an arrest, and successfully prosecute these people," said YPD Captain Rod Light.

The shootings are still being investigated. At this time, investigators don't believe the two in Yakima are related.